Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Olsen

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Aaron Swartz

The adults were completely wrong.

Art Spiegelman

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

David Foster Wallace

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

Bertrand Russell

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

Joan Didion

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

Erik Larson

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

John Irving

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

Hayao Miyazaki

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Lord Byron

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

Margaret Deland

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

Marcel Proust

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Henry Rollins

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

William James

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.